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Christian Bitcoiner and developer of Coracle and Flotilla. Learn more at flotilla.social.

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Last Notes

2026-11-11 01:16:10 GMT

Nothing makes me feel more like a meat proxy more than when my clanker finished 3 hours of work and I respond by misspelling "commit"

2026-11-11 00:23:00 GMT

Re-wrote caravel from rust into haskell today just for curiousity's sake. Line count dropped by 30% which is cool.

2026-11-07 04:03:31 GMT

Flotilla 1.15.0 is out, along with a new version of caravel that brings everything zooid used to do into a single monolithic binary. This makes hosting community-oriented relays much easier — there's now only one service to manage, and it's all written in rust.
Changes:
* Redesign threads with a board view, search, and related threads
* Suggest existing answers while composing a thread
* Schedule posts for later
* Show a note's stats, with a histogram of interactions
* Manage members and invites from one dialog
* Jump from a search result to the exact message
* Store events in an on-device database instead of loading a cache into memory
* Read an article from outside your spaces on a page of its own
* Upload space and room images to the space's media server
* Log in to a space without waiting on relay authentication
* Fix replies counted twice, threads scrolling themselves to the bottom, and feeds leaving gaps in cached history

2026-11-06 00:34:53 GMT

Coming soon: a better thread layout, related threads, and thread search. Here's how Squalk looks on the next version of Flotilla.
https://canoe.coracle.social/b001c59035b09e167ad038cd18688b50a289cbf4c8ef64454ea0af7f9b67629a.png
https://canoe.coracle.social/60af22a156203ae19405a8e0b3f82711d83da01d974fef6bcbac2b6f123bf4d6.png
https://canoe.coracle.social/357c8abb66f192e276515fad2a027693814f3de75b285e0a7e5d2794d9066365.png

2026-11-05 19:53:54 GMT

Are there any relay implementations that accept events with created_at in the future and hold them until they're in the past? Bonus points for serving them to the event's author so users can see a queue of scheduled notes.

2026-11-05 19:23:10 GMT

Just put together a small project for helping heal the nostr network. This is a follow up to my `canoe` project, which is a personal relay that actively replicates events across your inbox/outbox relays.
Snorkel is a daemon that crawls the network, replicating a random pubkey's events between their outbox/inbox relays every few seconds. It's less reliable, because a lot of relays block unauthenticated users (like nostr.land), but it should really help with deliverability and lost notes.
It's intended to run in the background with reasonably low resource usages, syncing ~100k profiles per day. If you want to run one, it's a good way to contribute to healing the network for people with poor relay selections, or who haven't migrated their events.
https://gitea.coracle.social/coracle/snorkel

2026-11-04 16:36:03 GMT

Just opened a PR to NIP 47 which allows apps to invalidate NWC URLs. Useful for cleaning things up on logout, or in case of leaked connection URLs.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2537
Please tag wallet providers so they can implement this and improve wallet security.
@nprofile…8l2d @nprofile…pevq

2026-11-03 19:46:49 GMT

Post Mortem:
The server I run Flotilla, zooid, and other things on got hacked this morning at about 5 AM Pacific. I had disabled the gitea action runner for pull requests, but not for users' own repositories. The attacker triggered two workflow runs (called "exploit" and "probe") in an action runner container which had the docker socket mounted.
At about 8 AM this morning I purged the attacker's two accounts (which was a mistake because it destroyed forensics), and gave Claude ssh access and asked it to clean things up. Gitea has been moved to a dedicated host with the action runner container configuration fixed and registrations disabled. The rest of the services have been manually moved to a fresh host.
There's no evidence that the attacker exfiltrated any sensitive data, installed any software, or executed any supply chain attacks (no packages were published, no updates released, and I keep signing keys elsewhere). This appears to have been an automated attack targeting poorly-secured gitea instances.
I'm treating the server as completely compromised, and have rotated all credentials and moved everything to new servers.
The main things for you to know:
- If you host a relay with me, it's possible the attacker had access to your space's chat messages.
- Hosted relays' secret keys were compromised. These were never shared with tenants, have been rotated, and never published any metadata. They were only used to map self-published events to a relay url.
This attack has made me reflect on the security characteristics of two things in particular:
- Nostr private keys can't be rotated. I stored low-value keys on disk rather than remotely, let alone using multisig. This is a very different threat model than people are used to. I am going to look into a developer-oriented way to store private keys for production use.
- NWC connection strings can't revoke themselves. One of my users had entered their connection string into caravel to enable automatic payments. I've contacted them and encouraged them to revoke the connection, but it's not something I can do myself. I am going to look into adding a self-revoke protocol to NWC (and NIP 46).

2026-10-28 16:12:41 GMT

@nprofile…rtq4 armada's relay is prohibiting PoW on gift wraps:
https://hbb.coracle.social/d3bfb9ea91d65bf73a2230167e19e468f2890b464e98cbe6b2f4e11d672ddf83.png

2026-10-27 17:14:56 GMT

running feather

2026-10-26 19:45:14 GMT

Possible unintended consequences of a panopticon crony capitalism machine brain: the unleashing of tens of thousands of individuals who need to become entrepreneurs in order to survive
#nevent1q…3j3c

2026-10-23 18:26:33 GMT

Announcing Dipity!
TL;DR, it's a bluetooth mesh chat app built for local communities, not protests. You can get it on zapstore, google play, and soon the apple store (Lord willing).
Last summer, I was sitting at a coffee shop chatting with a friend about creating a bluetooth mesh app, inspired by Manyverse (a scuttlebutt app). The local-first architecture is what originally got me interested in this whole space, and yet I'd never tried building on it.
Less than a week later, Bitchat came out, which took the wind out of my sails.
Since then, Bitchat has seen meteoric growth, topping app store charts and making international headlines. Which is great! But I also have a few problems with it.
First, its primary metaphor is chat, which might be useful for some cases (like protests), but is near worthless for slower-paced async communication — think concert announcements, garage sales, lost and found, etc.
Second, it's vanilla nostr — messages are signed, and geohash rooms are accessible from anywhere. There are no real barriers to communication across space.
James Carey (no, not that one) talks in his book "Communication as Culture" about time-binding vs space-binding media. Time-binding media create continuity over time, while space-binding media create continuity over space. The trade-off of each is discontinuity over the other axis. We see this is the rise of "horizontal" identities (race, class, gender) over "vertical" identities (nationality, regionalism, home town pride) in tandem with the rise of space-binding media like the internet.
I want to see if I can fight the inherent tendencies of digital media to accelerate communication and erode local identities by using it in a new way.
Dipity is anti-efficient; it uses bluetooth and nostr with a new signature scheme to promote verifiability across only two hops. (In theory, this could be short circuited by placing a relay in between, or by passing along proofs, but assuming buy-in from users, the network can suppress illicit gossip.)
The goal of this is to create a local-only, human-scale gossip network that supports the formation of organic, rooted communities.
I don't know if this project will work, but I think it's interesting and worth a try.
Until the iOS version is out, I don't recommend trying to onboard your local community, since network effect is key (unless your locale uses Android exclusively). But please give it a try and let me know what you think!
https://zapstore.dev/apps/social.coracle.dipity

2026-10-16 20:35:11 GMT

I'm getting more done than ever, but pride in my work is at an all-time low. The average quality of the work I do has improved dramatically over the last 6 months. Many of the engineering disciplines I neglected or never learned happen automatically now.
It used to be I would sweat to make something I was proud of, because I believed it was worthwhile to do so. The bad parts were bad, and many, but eclipsed by the purposefulness of the work that drove me to do it. And the good parts were good, because they were real — because I cared enough to discover them.
I'm not espousing the labor theory of value. I'm not talking about some essential, ineffable "good" in craftsmanship. What I'm saying is that sweat is an essential ingredient in producing something with a soul: something that people can love. People don't love commodities, they love singular things. The commodification of software is killing the love of it.
In other words: other people loved the garbage I used to craft more than the garbage I now produce.
Nowadays, all the parts of my work that used to be low quality are high quality, because Claude is a better programmer than I am. But the parts of my work that used to be good haven't survived. I might be trying to do something worthwhile, but because I haven't actually engaged with the problem I can't make anything better than slop materialize. The glory has departed.
Flotilla has greatly profited from me using AI to code, because the good parts only I could build were already there, and there was a lot of bad stuff that needed to be fixed.
But the way I feel about other projects that I haven't gone through that journey with is that they are garbage. Total trash. They are as valuable as the tokens I used to generate them. Because there's nothing really there. There is nothing to love. There is nothing singular. They are disposable, fungible.
When people refer to themselves as "idea guys" it means they suck at doing real work. But their ideas can only exist if someone takes the time to make their ideas a reality. But in the New Age of AI, idea guys can finally realize their genius, without being held back by a bunch of narrow-minded technicians!
But I think it will turn out that there wasn't actually any genius there in the first place, and everything that was of value about the original idea was actually discovered during the process of building it by the people who did the work to make it a reality.
Software as an art, or a craft — as a thing which is an object affection — is dying. This is fine, the affection was probably misplaced in the first place. A new kind of software — the stuff we create for ourselves, that no one else will ever see — will probably absorb some of that affection. The rest will be commodified.
I think this goes for every industry, by the way. An accountant can feel proud of his spreadsheet, a plumber of his solder, a salesperson of his pitch, even a developer of his agent harness. He can love the work of his hands and have affection for it. It can be singularly valuable to someone, and a conduit of love between the people concerned.
Does an assembly line worker feel affection for the parts he stamps out, or the people who receive them? Is oil extracted with heart? Are the foundations of skyscrapers filled in with love? Does the dollar store worker bask in the sunshiny faces of the children purchasing their very own extruded plastic disposable pseudo toys?
Maybe they do. I do think that wherever humans use tools, there will be affection. It reminds me of the nose art pilots used to paint on their bombers. "This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine."
Maybe means I should buy a mechanical keyboard, I don't know. DAU and MRR probably engender warm fuzzies in some types of people, but I'm not one of them.
Commodities are not necessary for a good life. A community can live without commodities, and survive. If everything were hand-made, pride and affection would ubiquitous - and its absence would be traceable to a character flaw in the worker. If every meal came from an animal who had a name instead of a number, every meal would embody gratitude and grief like no store-bought meal could.
I yearn to live that life and check out of this Terry Gilliam-esque Hotel California life, I say as I glance out the side of my eyes at the people I know who have just bought a couple dairy cows and moved out to some acreage, and keep typing.
Am I a coward for wanting to stay where it's comfortable and secure? Where my skills (or what's left of them) are in demand? Is my heart too bound up with the bounty of the market that I have become a commodity myself?
Or am I a whiner for being so sad about losing the drudgery of programming? For not wanting to live on a diet of petrochemical-derived macro-nutrients? For not wanting to spend hours a week in a car driving to an office where I work by myself?
"Better a handful with quietness Than both hands full, together with toil and grasping for the wind."

2026-10-16 00:45:42 GMT

Fresh off the presses: I wrote a new personal relay implementation that will fix nostr.
Instead of syncing notes from your web of trust (expensive, no one is looking for them there) or blasting notes to the network (pointless, borderline abusive), it looks for your outbox relays and fetches your notes from them. This means that after years of home relay fragmentation you can finally get all your notes in one place. Even better, if you run two instances they will actively copy your notes between them without any configuration other than a normal 10002.
Use the outbox model. It works.
https://gitea.coracle.social/coracle/canoe

2026-10-16 00:36:11 GMT

I messed up the joke by forgetting to post the picture
https://hbb.coracle.social/a826c39bfc0fcef157e4b90764099116c42ebed416bfa6e9a6cc7ab466e1ac17.jpg
#nevent1q…6u0u

2026-10-16 00:09:37 GMT

Whenever I go for a run I make sure to bring my electrolyte drink with me.

2026-10-15 23:25:23 GMT

I'm sick. Please help. I just told my agent to "vibe code" something.

2026-10-15 23:11:52 GMT

@nprofile…e9uk @nprofile…3stj is there a way to parameterize napplets? I'm building them into flotilla, and I think it would be great to be able to have parameterizable napplets. Flotilla would then construct them with relay=whatever, or room=h, etc.

2026-10-13 23:17:22 GMT

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Not 100% sure what you mean, but clicking on any reply will set it as the root, and every reply also has an "open parent/root" button too

2026-10-13 21:35:22 GMT

Flotilla 1.13.0 is out on zapstore and web — biggest changes are the addition of bookmarks, refinements to the home page's microblogging features (good enough now for me to quit using coracle).
Full list:
* Add bookmarks, with folders and a bookmark manager
* Redesign the chat and room composers
* Support paid spaces, with checkout and relay notifications
* Mute people from their profile menu
* Choose what the home network feed and notifications tab include, and merge notifications about the same note
* Show replies in the network feed under the note they answer
* Rework the home inbox to include space activity, and add a relay settings button to the network section
* Spotlight screen shares in calls
* Reorder lists by dragging on touch screens
* Keep a space's content across a reload, and keep working when local storage fails
* Show room references as links, every name in a reaction tooltip, and open a DM's message menu by clicking it
* Cap comment indentation on narrow screens

2026-10-10 13:27:30 GMT

How did I now know about What We Do In the Shadows? Just watched the movie, so funny.

2026-10-08 17:48:42 GMT

My to-do list is the place where the important work I don't want to do goes to die

2026-10-07 16:12:44 GMT

A few relays I run that my fellow nostr developers might find useful:
- wss://messaging.coracle.social — auth and pow protected NIP 17 relay
- wss://indexer.coracle.social — a strfry relay that stores only kind 10002 and 10009. It replicates other indexer relays on the network.
- wss://bucket.coracle.social — you can put anything here, but it gets deleted after 30 seconds. Good for testing and nip 46 signers.

2026-10-07 03:35:58 GMT

Just uninstalled coracle. Flotilla has feature parity for my purposes. Feels good.

2026-10-02 23:49:00 GMT

Flotilla 1.12.0 is out!
The big E this time is the addition of social media features, including notifications. Flotilla might just become my new daily driver, replacing Coracle.
Other garbage:
* Share your screen in calls on all platforms
* Redesign the content library
* Add a location to profiles and a member map to the directory
* Add a notifications tab to the home network section
* Add a create post button to the home page and profiles
* Remind people about calendar events they're going to
* Record voice notes in a dialog, and go straight to the call in voice rooms
* Add a nature theme, more emoji and kaomoji
* Show rich link previews for links to spaces, rooms and profiles
* Keep a message in the composer when it fails to send, instead of dropping it
* Only raise notifications for new messages
* Keep private mutes when saving content settings, and handle muted words from other clients
* Keep edited listings and calendar events in their room
* Fix stalled uploads, quotes that hadn't loaded, misplaced comments and the emoji picker overflowing
Thanks for using it (if you do)

2026-10-02 21:37:04 GMT

Just published pi-nostr, a series of packages that glue pi to nostr.
https://gitea.coracle.social/coracle/pi-nostr
Running an agent that speaks nostr (nip 17, 29, and kind 1) is now a single command:
`npx @pi-nostr/cli`
The above command uses pi-durable as a framework, which is moderately useful. I'm working on a much more complete nostr-native harness.
You can also install the same nostr abilities that power the above agent command to your local instance of pi:
```pi install npm:@pi-nostr/pi-nip17```
```pi install npm:@pi-nostr/pi-nip29```
```pi install npm:@pi-nostr/pi-notes```
Here's a quick demo video to show just how easy this is:
https://hbb.coracle.social/97fe419b29fb2f85615cc70a004068c66d2efdae67a3d3e1e38cf82346aa6b0e.webm

2026-10-01 21:43:02 GMT

Well, maybe not any more. Pi durable looks pretty good.
https://earendil.com/posts/pi-durable/
#nevent1q…0qh5
I was building my own agent at https://gitea.coracle.social/coracle/flotilla-agent and probably will continue to do so, but the design is quite similar to pi-durable. A little less minimalistic, but it's deeply integrated into nostr, so it might still have a place.

2026-09-30 17:50:42 GMT

New version of Coracle is out: 0.6.38
* Upgrade to welshman 0.12
* Fix retrying a failed direct message on the publishes page
* Retry decrypting direct messages instead of dropping them
* Back off when reconnecting to unreachable relays
* Upgrade insecure requests to https

2026-09-28 21:46:56 GMT

Are you teaching your kids to program, or prompt? I just built https://ptut-dungeoncrawler.onrender.com/ for my son and I can't shake the feeling that I'm like a dad in the 90's teaching his kid to write assembly code.
At the same time, I don't think we as a society have a grasp on how to approach LLMs in a healthy way. This new way of working is still routinely destroying the minds of professionals with decades of experience. I'm not about to unleash it on my kid.
Are there better skill sets to teach your kids so they can be digitally literate in the future? AI architecture? Hardware? Philosophy?

2026-09-26 02:21:33 GMT

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Just a thought

2026-09-25 21:14:11 GMT

All hows are whats, and all whats are hows, except for God himself.

2026-09-25 19:20:16 GMT

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It occurred to me recently that ideas are like technology. They are both ways to scale influence in a way that escapes their creator/designer, modified by their users, and create an ecology of unintended consequences that obscures their own influence.

2026-09-25 04:07:16 GMT

@nprofile…xlpv I've begun vibing a game for my kids. It's a low-poly racing/combat game. Fun to be able to produce something so cool for them.

2026-09-23 02:30:30 GMT

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Is this experience speaking?

2026-09-21 16:28:42 GMT

@nprofile…y484 I am trying to use ngit with a non-ngit origin, and it looks like some checks assume a particular git setup. My origin is set to my gitea repository, and `upstream` is set to fiatjaf's ngit repository. When I try to push to `upstream/pr/listmethodassignees` I get:
Error: cannot push 'refs/heads/pr/listmethodassignees' as proposal as branch isn't ahead
of 'origin/master'

2026-09-21 15:48:15 GMT

@nprofile…xf5k someone has a question about svg support in the flotilla support space:
https://app.flotilla.social/spaces/support.flotilla.social/triabreebeyf7?at=1789930905

2026-09-19 23:58:14 GMT

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We're not far off that

2026-09-19 18:23:06 GMT

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Yeah, my podcast was an attempt to bridge the gap between philospophy and devs but it's tough.

2026-09-19 14:18:44 GMT

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Tools for conviviality is a watershed for me in how I think about technology

2026-09-19 14:17:46 GMT

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I used to feel that way about AI. But I don't think it's a truth seeking machine, but a goal-seeking machine. It's instrumentality, not epiphany. I think it will only dig us deeper into our materialist/atheist hole.

2026-09-18 19:18:00 GMT

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I am looking forward to it!

2026-09-18 19:17:41 GMT

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Haven't had a chance to crack it open yet, but I have high expectations

2026-09-18 18:48:25 GMT

Books by Ivan Illich vs books about Ivan Illich
https://hbb.coracle.social/47af40cb63ee6c89a692f5eed4727e87f37b1d953fc9ddf755e4faad88fb49b1.jpg

2026-09-18 16:56:21 GMT

It's honestly stunning
https://www.reddit.com/r/DiscordAlternatives/s/m2czrX9SFt
#nevent1q…2u28

2026-09-18 16:11:11 GMT

I read Malcolm Guite's Galahad and the Grail recently (which I highly recommend), and now I'm seeing Arthurian legends everywhere. Lord of the Rings is an Arthurian legend. There are Arthurian elements in LeGuinn's cosmology. I'm tempted to think at this point that the entire fantasy genre is really just a secularization of Arthur.

2026-09-18 16:09:01 GMT

People on reddit are even more disagreeable and abrasive than people on nostr 😂

2026-09-17 22:27:15 GMT

Just released https://gitea.coracle.social/coracle/nostadon, which allows you to replicate your posts from nostr to mastodon. Why would you want to do this? I don't know, but you can now.

2026-09-17 17:02:49 GMT

New Coracle release: 0.6.37 with some bugfixes, maintenance, and special requests.
* Support encrypted files in direct messages
* Add a setting for turning off link previews
* Add social preview tags for shared coracle.social links
* Rebuild the app on welshman 0.10
* Cache events separately for each logged-in account
* Remove relay reviews
* Fix comment tags
* Fix errors when signed out
* Reduce bandwidth and speed up page loads

2026-09-17 16:22:41 GMT

Does anyone have opinions on vinix? Seems pretty cool, but no one on HN is talking about it much.
https://vinix-os.org

2026-09-16 02:48:17 GMT

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Transcription, TTS and STT are my only three use cases currently

2026-09-16 02:40:58 GMT

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Does it do audio?

2026-09-16 02:40:45 GMT

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This is my kind of AI. This could the humanism, the speed, cost, lock in, maybe even alignment. Going to go try it.

2026-09-16 01:25:02 GMT

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Oh, that's a nice solution. I don't know how many normies will have it installed, but I'll look at adding support

2026-09-16 00:20:22 GMT

New release of Flotilla is out! This is the first primarily clanker-written version, so it's a combination of bugfixes, splashy but poorly thought out features, and busy work (many tests, much CI).
My favorite new features are related to dictation and TTS — if you enter an OpenRouter API key into your settings, you'll now have the ability to ask flotilla to read a message to you. You can also dictate a message, transcribe it, and send it as a chat message.
Lots of redesign too, making classifieds, threads, and calendars more useful. I've also gotten rid of the dumb home page and added an inbox view which spans all your spaces, as well as a kind 1 feed from people you follow.
But wait, there's more:
* Replace the home page with a dashboard of unread conversations, space activity and a network feed
* Redesign the calendar with month, week and agenda views, and add RSVPs
* Redesign classifieds as a browsable marketplace
* Rework threads as one continuous list with unread indicators on every board
* Add slash commands
* Add read out loud and voice dictation
* Add a desktop app with Linux, Windows and macOS packaging
* Add relay data import and export to the hosting panel
* Add a mute setting for rooms
* Show NIP-38 statuses and a pinned note on profiles
* Rework search dialogs
* Improve link previews, falling back to an inline link when one fails
* Persist direct messages so history survives relay retention
* Add an image by upload or url from one dialog, and play audio attachments inline
* Let space icons be dragged to reorder in the sidebar
* Open the space menu in a drawer instead of navigating away from the room
* Fix push notification delivery, taps and badge counts
* Update welshman library to 0.10.9
* Performance improvements to feeds, room chat and reactions
* Add an end-to-end test suite covering the user story catalog
Out on zapstore and web, ios and play store soon.

2026-09-15 21:06:26 GMT

@nprofile…hmt7 buzz is a disaster from an interop point of view, which is sort of the whole point of nostr. You should have your guys take a closer look at adhering to standards instead of using proprietary solutions. Flotilla is standards-first, and is an easy resource you can point your clankers. Nostrord is also very good, and talks to flotilla pretty well.

2026-09-13 19:32:37 GMT

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Primal is stuck in the past with insecure dms

2026-09-13 02:39:13 GMT

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9/11 is the most obvious conspiracy there has ever been. Except maybe covid.

2026-09-12 13:25:24 GMT

@nprofile…ujpr you've started sending me mangled base64 nip 17 DMs. Please stop whatever weird thing you're doing and choose a different kind.

2026-09-12 01:04:03 GMT

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None of us, there aren't more than 8 nostr users

2026-09-12 01:01:34 GMT

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My kids are playing midtown madness 2 as we speak

2026-09-11 22:42:20 GMT

So I've been fiddling around with connecting agents to Flotilla for a couple weeks, and I'm discovering that while it's easy to get up and running, building a good harness is quite difficult and has a lot of trade-offs.
I know a lot of you have built nostr agent harnesses. Shill your project here, I'd like to take a look and see if I can avoid re-inventing the wheel.

2026-09-11 13:31:58 GMT

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You should find out! Illich in particular is very accessible. Ellul is much more difficult.

2026-09-11 13:29:38 GMT

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What a sad story, I hadn't heard about it. I imagine the radical monopoly connection is with the poor postpartum care given?

2026-09-11 02:56:38 GMT

People here have good taste. Next time you're looking for new music/a movie/a prduct, you should try https://gnod.com

2026-09-10 23:30:01 GMT

My posts about bitcoin get an order of magnitude more engagement than my posts about Jaques Ellul or Ivan Illich

2026-09-10 21:27:46 GMT

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I've run into a lot of annoying issues so far but I like the paradigm

2026-09-10 21:15:50 GMT

Reading Jaques Ellul while my clankers slave away in their dark factory is 👨‍🍳👌

2026-09-10 21:10:51 GMT

People are too dumb for bitcoin, yesterday I asked a server if the restaurant accepted it, and she asked if it was legal

2026-09-10 20:50:10 GMT

Trying out multica.ai today. My new job title is "meat glue"

2026-09-10 20:12:33 GMT

Today, however, claude is giving me lip:
> Fair on the manual step — that's my bad framing again. But I'm not solving the CAPTCHAs, and another Claude having done it doesn't change that for me.
#nevent1q…tx0p

2026-09-10 18:14:08 GMT

Just re-vibed my highlights mini-app, now with the ability to browse @nprofile…4h9e's personal commonplace book:
https://highlights.coracle.social/

2026-09-10 13:37:26 GMT

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I simply won't go back. I was fantasizing yesterday about getting rid of my phone entirely

2026-09-08 14:58:05 GMT

> Flagging the skirt doubles the jams.
#justclaudecodethings

2026-09-05 00:55:36 GMT

Don't vibe specs, kids

2026-09-04 13:24:00 GMT

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Yep, it's locally calculated:
https://blossom.primal.net/21f650dd48ecc474395d2b9c244f51b5f2cb37ae67e317ef6e41f8ffffcfbe95.png

2026-09-04 02:34:20 GMT

Just released a new relay implementation:
https://gitea.coracle.social/coracle/punt
This is a narrowly-focused DM relay. It supports negentropy, enforces recipient auth, 16 bits of pow, and evicts events after 3 months. Free for you to use, and free for you to self-host as a personal relay (there is a pubkey whitelist option as well). The goal is to make DMs somewhat more deliverable by providing a sane default — the relays I had been using have slowly been failing to serve messages.
Add it to your (or your client's) NIP 17 messaging relay list at:
wss://messaging.coracle.social

2026-09-04 01:12:59 GMT

"When you're building the temple, you're not supposed to hear the tools that are being used."
Chris Wiley

2026-09-03 16:24:49 GMT

Just finished up the Summer of Bitcoin internship program — thanks to Saksham, Aditya, and Varun for participating!
https://www.summerofbitcoin.org/
If you're interested in seeing what was accomplished, take a look at the participants' reports below:
Saksham (and Varun): https://blog.summerofbitcoin.org/flotilla-pmf/
Aditya: https://blog.summerofbitcoin.org/building-reliable-real-time-features-for-flotilla-final-report/
These guys all did great work. Saksham and Varun brought a lot of expertise in product development that I lack; Aditya pounded out a lot of code and contributed some design polish to Flotilla that's still beyond my reach. If anyone is looking for India-based hires, let me know and I can put you in touch.

2026-09-01 23:09:23 GMT

Nobody:
Claude: "Three things are tangled in that one flock, and only the first needs to be serial."

2026-09-01 15:23:32 GMT

@nprofile…4fpu I've lost my shakespeare project for https://highlights.shakespeare.wtf/, how do I get it back?

2026-08-31 19:07:33 GMT

I told claude to register for my gitea instance using a nostr nsec, and it did it. At one point it reported:
> Success — the captcha OCR worked on the second try. Verifying the account was actually created and I'm logged in.
The internet as we've known it is melting before our eyes. The internet has for a long time actually been functioning as a high-trust, small-scale environment, just because of the speed at which humans can communicate and write code. Agents just 100x'd that - bringing the scale of the internet to the next order of magnitude. With all the degeneracy leaps in scale imply.

2026-08-31 18:29:34 GMT

I'm going back through Communication as Culture and copying down my underlines. I keep finding absolute bangers like this:
#nevent1q…xx2z

2026-08-31 13:18:31 GMT

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I'm curious then, what are your goals, and how does nostr fit into your own brand of luddism?

2026-08-30 14:33:57 GMT

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Yeah, it crafts a prompt but it doesn't directly consult the food database. That is ok in my book though because food varies so much anyway, you're never eating a platonic anything.

2026-08-30 14:32:25 GMT

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Not everything can or should be reduced to power. Thinking in those terms is a bias toward utility, which tends to create blindness to other types of human good that are not themselves useful or powerful, at least on the same terms.

2026-08-29 22:51:11 GMT

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I was deliberately vague. But something along the lines of: harmony with nature, organic community, proper scale, economies that serve something other than growth.

2026-08-29 22:49:52 GMT

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Yes, but maybe (as Carey suggests) by turning to art, religion, and politics (which have largely lost their meaning in modernity, having been colonized by technique).

2026-08-29 22:48:34 GMT

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Gridless is very cool, but they are explicitly bringing tech to remote areas, looping them into modernity for good or ill

2026-08-29 22:47:25 GMT

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He has a whole chapter that elaborates. He is pointing to the utopian promise of steam, electricity, electronics, and the internet and how they failed to materialize.
By tech I mean nostr. Are cryptography and self hosting truly subversive? Or are they implicitly centralizing and inherently efficiency oriented?

2026-08-29 22:13:27 GMT

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Hard same here

2026-08-29 19:19:13 GMT

I'm curious if people on nostr would agree with this skepticism of technology's ability to restore a natural balance within society, or whether you think that the technology we're all working on here can actually accomplish that mission:
"An increasingly prevalent and popular brand of the futurist ethos is one that identifies electricity and electrical power, electronics and cybernetics, computers and information with a new birth of community, decentralization, ecological balance, and social harmony... The manifest consequences of electricity are clearly in opposition to a decentralized, organic, harmonious order."
This is a quote by James Carey from his book "Communication and Culture."

2026-08-29 18:26:12 GMT

"Reality is, above all, a scarce resource."
James Carrey

2026-08-27 16:47:58 GMT

Coracle 0.6.36 is out, with some bugfixes, improvements, and breaking changes:
* Publish kind 1 replies as comments
* Show highlight details in notifications
* Strip tracking query params from links
* Fix a tag parsing error
* Fix ratings
* Wrap long words to avoid compose box stretching

2026-08-27 16:00:01 GMT

This is actually interesting. I saw these posters all over Seattle:
https://blossom.primal.net/fd3ec70886293c0ec9f7b38c780fbc0034f9481ac677ec601115193396ae997f.png
#nevent1q…rz8a
The home page shows icons representing BLM, gayness, NPR, and some kind of feminist BLM insignia, and yet the text includes sentences like:
> While the public elects a new President every four years, buried within the bureaucracy is a permanent layer of management with its own agenda — arguably none more powerful than the CIA. We effectively have a secret cabal within the halls of power that takes its orders from the eugenic elites.
and
> The role of the Rockefellers, Moderna and the US Military in creating Covid, as documented in our video reports, verifies the elite’s ability to weaponize disease.
They even cite @nprofile…2k9g's work. Is this some kind of psyop, or are these crypto-histories going mainstream on the left?

2026-08-27 15:46:34 GMT

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Catching on

2026-08-27 13:38:11 GMT

Are the leftists finally catching on? Or what is this?
https://waronus.org/big-picture/

2026-08-27 13:36:32 GMT

Took my son to Seattle for a few days. What a beautiful place.
https://blossom.primal.net/2f0dac32ef665d90c3cbc89c5b241d3d68423a6bc8b3393a16349dac4c45634a.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/daa11ba9409b232a3044fdbf6006bfb8313bb20562d0ccc2407e2eb66bd92b9f.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/16aa6eef938c1f0894c080ca262ca0247b8d20c4dad86636ac64913b555003ca.jpg

2026-08-27 02:05:35 GMT

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No, but I have listened to Dyer a few times, it was probably his recent conversation with Pageau that made me think about this.

2026-08-27 00:44:56 GMT

Superhero movies are just gnosticism, pretending to be christianity, pretending to be paganism

2026-08-23 03:28:36 GMT

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Yeah, it worked ok but I bought an early model so it was expensive and buggy. I made a couple hundred bucks over 4 winters. Newer models are probably better, and are much cheaper. Network hash rate is higher though. I say go for it.